|THE London _Spectator_ says that "the humor of the United States, if
closely examined, will be found to depend in a great measure on
the ascendancy which the principle of utility has gained over the
imaginations of a rather imaginative people." The humor of England, if
closely examined, will be found just about ready to drop over the picket
fence into the arena, but never quite making connections. If we scan
the English literary horizon, we will find the humorist up a tall tree,
depending from a sharp knot thereof by the slack of his overalls. He is
just out of sight at the time you look in that direction. He always has
a man working in his place, however. The man who works in his place
is just paring down the half sole, and newly pegging a joke, that has
recently been sent in by the foreman for repairs.